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Windows 7: Hard Drive failure to reoccurring BSOD

So I posted here earlier and got some great help, hopefully I can be saved again.

So recently I've been having lots of issues with my hard drive. To keep it short, every now and then it would "disappear" and I'd have to boot from USB. It used to be that I could still access the hard drive when booting into Ubuntu but recently the hard drive would fail to mount.

But now even more annoyingly, I've been getting the BSOD with the following error message after restarting:

This is my last hope before I'll be getting a new laptop as I cannot have this happening in my last year and a half of college when I have a lot of important work to do. I need a laptop that I can rely on. At the same time, I'd prefer not to invest money into this as I'm about to enter the professional world.

Several files are missing, so I'm not getting the full picture.
Please run the SFDT again and let it run its course it can take 15min at times to collect all the data necessary.
There should be eight files generated not including the dumps.

Regardless, the majority of the bug checks do indeed indicate a failing storage solution, I recommend
backing up any files you can't afford to lose to an external device (or a different internal one) immediately.

Once we will get the rest of the files, thus info of the system, we'll decide the course of action.

Visit HDDdiag and follow the instructions | Or follow the instructions below.

If SeaTools For DOS does not recognize the drive;
Boot into the BIOS using the *Fx key.
Look for an entry called SATA Mode (or something similar), it should be set to IDE / AHCI.
It's probably set to AHCI which is why SeaTools doesn't recognize them in the DOS environment.
Set it to IDE then save and exit usually by pressing the F10 key.
Now boot into SeaTools and it should detect the drives.
Start the Long Test and let it run.
Upon completion don't try to boot into Windows as it will only result in a BSOD, go back into the BIOS
and change the SATA setting back to what it was in the first place.

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